Waste Management

Can you imagine a Clean World?

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Submitted by admin on Wed, 2016-03-02 13:02

A Clean World is exactly what Let’s Do It! World is after, when organising a World Cleanup Day 8 September 2018. They intend to engage the whole world from for one big World Cleanup Day, to collect trash. Let’s Do It! A world a civic-led mass movement that began in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 people united to clean up the entire country (10,000 tonnes of waste) in just five hours.  Since then, with the help of volunteers, the model—one country in one day— spread around the world.

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Waste Management

Waste as a Resource: an Excerpt from European Environment Agency

Submitted by Ja’afaru Akibu on Sat, 2014-07-05 16:50

In line with the earlier promise I made in my last post on e-waste to share knowledge of Waste-Wealth initiatives. Here is an important note for EEA.

What if we could use waste as a resource and thereby scale down the demand for extraction of new resources? Extracting fewer materials and using existing resources would help avert some of the impacts created along the chain. In this context, unused waste also represents a potential loss.

Conference to Spotlight New e-Waste Management Solutions for Kenya. Culled from UNEP

Submitted by Ja’afaru Akibu on Wed, 2014-07-02 12:13

Kenya and UNEP host National e-Waste Conference and
Exhibition

Nairobi, 28 May 2014 - A National e-Waste Conference and Exhibition was held in Nairobi, Wednesday, to identify solutions to Kenya's mounting e-waste problem. Focusing on the potential economic and environmental benefits of the responsible management of e-waste, stakeholders discussed ways to reduce the hazards arising from the disposal of electronic equipment in Kenya.